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AVitli the support of grants from the American Philosophical So- 

 ciety and the National Science Foimdation, Dr. Collins left for Europe 

 June 24 to make a comparative study of archeological materials in 

 European museums and to attend the 34th International Congress of 

 Americanists in Vieima and the 6th International Congress of Anthro- 

 pological and Ethnological Sciences in Paris. 



At the beginning of the fiscal year, Dr. William C. Sturtevant, 

 etlinologist, was concluding a period of fieldwork begun in February 

 1959 among the Seminole Indians in Florida. Returning north, he 

 spent July 8 in and around Charleston, S.C., where he examined 

 several old Southeastern Indian specimens and a portrait of Osceola, 

 the famous Seminole leader, in the Charleston Museum, visited Osce- 

 ola's grave at nearby Fort Moultrie, and briefly investigated modern 

 Gullah Negro basketmaking near Fort Moultrie. 



On his return to Washington, Dr. Sturtevant spent most of his 

 time at work on the materials collected during his extended field trip 

 in Florida. He also prepared a paper on the agriculture of the 16th- 

 century Taino Indians of the West Indies, which he delivered at the 

 58th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association 

 in Mexico City in December. While in Mexico Dr. Sturtevant visited 

 the impressive Maya archeological site at Palenque and then spent 

 four days observing the lacquer-making industry at Uruapan, Mi- 

 choacdn, and making a small collection illustrating this craft for 

 the National Museum. 



In mid-November, Dr. Sturtevant spent two days at Newtown, 

 Cattaraugus Reservation, New York, for the wake and funeral of 

 Solon Jones, who was a leader of the Longhouse religion, a gi*eat 

 expert on Seneca ceremonies, a well-known orator in Seneca, and in 

 his younger days a famous lacrosse player. Mr. Jones will be greatly 

 missed by his many Iroquois friends and coreligionists and also by 

 anthropologists familiar with his commimity. 



Dr. Sturtevant attended the 12th Conference on Iroquois Research 

 (Red House, N.Y., in October), the annual meetings of the Associa- 

 tion for Asian Studies (New York, in April), and the Society for 

 American Archaeology (New Haven, in May). 



Dr. Wallace L. Chafe, linguist, was engaged in fieldwork on the 

 Tonawanda Reservation in New York State during July, August, 

 and early September. He collected material for the completion of 

 a Seneca dictionary and recorded and transcribed several religious 

 texts which are part of the Longhouse ceremonial pattern. This field- 

 work was sponsored by the New York State Museum and Science 

 Service in cooperation with the Bureau of American Ethnology. 



Dr. Chafe served as chairman of the 12th Conference on Iroquois 

 Research, held at Red House, N.Y., October 16-18. 



